On Snowman's way back to the arboretum, he prepares what he will say to the Crakers. He will tell them that Crake has spoken to him in the form of a burning bush and has ordered Jimmy to eat three fish a week from now on. As he approaches the village, he hears a strange crooning. The people have built an effigy of him, and they are singing around it. He wonders where they got the idea of creating a symbol. They are happy that their efforts have brought Snowman home.
Abraham Lincoln tells Snowman that others like him have been there. It was a group that included a woman who smelled "blue," according to the Crakers. The men started to sing to her and expose their blue penises, but the people.....
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